Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Charles C. Ragin and Peer C. Fiss. 2024. A Set-Analytic Approach to Intersectionality. Social Science Research, in press.

Moshe Farjoun and Peer C. Fiss. 2022. Thriving on Contradiction: Toward a Dialectical Alternative to Fit-based Models in Strategy (and Beyond). Strategic Management Journal, 43: 340-369.

Santi Furnari, Donal Crilly, Vilmos F. Misangyi, Thomas Greckhamer, Peer C. Fiss, and Ruth V. Aguilera. 2021. Capturing Causal Complexity: Heuristics for Configurational Theorizing. Academy of Management Review, 46: 778-799.

YoungKi Park, Peer C. Fiss, and Omar A. El Sawy. 2020. Theorizing the Multiplicity of Digital Phenomena: The Ecology of Configurations, Causal Recipes, and Guidelines for Applying QCA. Management of Information Systems Quarterly, 44: 1493-1520.

Vern Glaser, Mariam Krikorian Atkinson, and Peer C. Fiss. 2020. Goal-Based Categorization: Dynamic Classification in the Display Advertising Industry. Organization Studies, 41: 921-943.

Jade Y. Lo, Peer C. Fiss, Eunice Y. Rhee, and Mark T. Kennedy. 2020. Category Viability: Balanced Levels of Coherence and Distinctiveness. Academy of Management Review, 45: 85-108.

Thomas Greckhamer, Santi Furnari, Peer Fiss, and Ruth V. Aguilera. 2018. Studying Configurations with Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Best Practices in Strategy and Organization Research. Strategic Organization, 16: 482-495.

Vilmos F. Misangyi, Thomas Greckhamer, Santi Furnari, Peer Fiss, Donal Crilly, and Ruth V. Aguilera. 2017. Embracing Causal Complexity: The Emergence of a Neo-Configurational Perspective. Journal of Management, 43: 255-282.

YoungKi Park, Omar A. El Sawy, and Peer C. Fiss. 2017. The Role of Business Intelligence and Communication Technologies in Organizational Agility: A Configurational Approach. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 18: 648-686.

Vern L. Glaser, Peer C. Fiss, and Mark Thomas Kennedy. 2016. Making Snowflakes Like Stocks: Stretching, Bending, and Positioning to Make Financial Market Analogies Work in Online Advertising. Organization Science, 27: 1029-1048.

Ruud T. Frambach, Peer C. Fiss, and Paul T. M. Ingenbleek. 2016. How Important Is Customer Orientation for Firm Performance? A Fuzzy Set Analysis of Orientations, Strategies, and Environments. Journal of Business Research, 69: 1428-1436.

Rhee, Eunice Y., and Peer C. Fiss. 2014. Framing Controversial Actions: Regulatory Focus, Source Credibility, and Stock Market Reaction to Poison Pill Adoption. Academy of Management Journal, 57: 1734-1758.

Fiss, Peer C, and Dmitry Sharapov, Lasse Cronqvist. 2013. Opposites Attract? Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Large-N QCA and Econometric Analysis. Political Research Quarterly, 66: 191-198.

Fiss, Peer C, and Mark T. Kennedy, Gerald F. Davis. 2012. How Golden Parachutes Unfolded: Diffusion and Variation of a Controversial Practice. Organization Science, 23: 1077-1099.

Fiss, Peer C. 2011. Building Better Causal Theories: A Fuzzy Set Approach to Typologies in Organization Research. Academy of Management Journal, 54: 393-420.

Ansari, Shazad, Peer C. Fiss, and Edward J. Zajac. 2010. Made to Fit: How Practices Vary As They Diffuse. Academy of Management Review, 35: 67-92.

Kennedy, Mark T., and Peer C. Fiss. 2009. Institutionalization, Framing, and Diffusion: The Logic of TQM Adoption and Implementation Decisions among U.S. Hospitals. Academy of Management Journal, 52: 897-918.

Fiss, Peer C. 2007. A Set-theoretic Approach to Organizational Configurations. Academy of Management Review, 32: 1180-1198.

Fiss, Peer C. 2006. Social Influence Effects and Managerial Compensation Evidence from Germany. Strategic Management Journal, 27: 1013-1031.

Fiss, Peer C., and Edward J. Zajac. 2006. The Symbolic Management of Strategic Change: Sensegiving via Framing and Decoupling. Academy of Management Journal, 49: 1173-1193.

Fiss, Peer C., and Paul M. Hirsch. 2005. The Discourse of Globalization: Framing and Sensemaking of an Emerging Concept. American Sociological Review, 70: 29-52.

Fiss, Peer C., and Edward J. Zajac. 2004. The Diffusion of Ideas Over Contested Terrain: The (Non)adoption of a Shareholder Value Orientation among German Firms. Administrative Science Quarterly, 49: 501-534.

Book chapters and Invited Articles

Johannes Meuer and Peer C. Fiss. Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Business and Management Research. Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Business and Management. Oxford University Press.

Eunice Y. Rhee, Jade Y. Lo, Mark T. Kennedy, and Peer C. Fiss. 2017. Things That Last? Category Creation, Imprinting, and Durability. Pp. 295-325 in “From Categories to Categorization: Studies in Sociology, Organizations and Strategy at the Crossroads,” Special Issue of Research in the Sociology of Organizations, edited by Rodolphe Durand, Nina Granqvist, and Anna Tyllström. Bingley, UK: Emerald.

Peer C. Fiss. 2016. A Short History of Golden Parachutes. HRB.org.

Joep P. Cornelissen, Rodolphe Durand, Peer C. Fiss, John C. Lammers, and Eero Vaara. 2015. Putting Communication Front and Center in Institutional Theory and Analysis. Introduction to the Special Topic Forum. Academy of Management Review, 40: 10-27

Peer C. Fiss, Axel Marx, and Benoît Rihoux. 2014. Comment: Getting QCA Right. Sociological Methodology, 44: 95-100.

Mark T. Kennedy and Peer C. Fiss. 2013. An Ontological Turn in Categories Research: From Standards of Legitimacy to Evidence of Actuality. Journal of Managemen Studies, 50: 1138-1154

Rick Delbridge and Peer C. Fiss. 2013. Editor's Comments: Styles of Theorizing and the Social Organization of Knowledge. Academy of Management Review, 38: 325-331

Peer C. Fiss, Axel Marx, and Bart Cambré. 2013. Configurational Theory and Methods in Organizational Research: Introduction. Pages 1-22 in Configurational Theory and Methods in Organizational Research, edited by Peer C. Fiss, Axel Marx, and Bart Cambré. Bingley, UK: Emerald.

Thomas Greckhamer, Vilmos Misangyi, and Peer C. Fiss. 2013. The Two QCAs: Small- and Large-N Comparative Approaches in Organization Studies. Pages 49-75 in Configurational Theory and Methods in Organizational Research, edited by Peer C. Fiss, Axel Marx, and Bart Cambré. Bingley, UK: Emerald.

Bart Cambré, Peer C. Fiss, and Axel Marx. 2013. Conclusion: The Path Forward. Pages 311-319 in Configurational Theory and Methods in Organizational Research, edited by Peer C. Fiss, Axel Marx, and Bart Cambré. Bingley, UK: Emerald.

Peer C. Fiss. 2009. Case Studies and the Configurational Analysis of Organizational Phenomena. Pp. 424-440 in the Handbook of Case Study Methods, edited by Charles C. Ragin and David Byrne. London: Sage.

Rodney Lacey and Peer C. Fiss. 2009. Comparative Organizational Analysis across Multiple Levels: A Set-theoretic Approach. Pp. 91-116 Research in the Sociology of Organizations: Comparative Approaches to Organizational Research, edited by Brayden King, Teppo Felin, & David Whetten. Bingley, UK: Emerald.

Paul M. Hirsch, Peer C. Fiss, and Amanda Hoel-Green. 2009. A Durkheimian Approach to Globalization. Pp. 223-245 in The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations, edited by Paul S. Adler. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 Peer C. Fiss. 2008. Institutions and Corporate Governance. Pp. 389-410 in SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism, edited by Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Kerstin Sahlin & Roy Suddaby. London: Sage Publications.

Charles C Ragin and Peer C. Fiss. 2008. Net Effects Analysis versus Configurational Analysis: An Empirical Demonstration. Chapter 11, Pp. 190-212 in Ragin, Charles C., Redesigning Social Inquiry: Set Relations in Social Research. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Paul M. Hirsch and Peer C. Fiss. 2000. Doing Sociology and Culture: Richard Peterson’s Quest and Contribution.  Poetics, 28 (2-3), 97-105.

Book Reviews

Peer C. Fiss. Review of “Markets on Trial: The Economic Sociology of the U.S. Financial Crisis.” Edited by Michael Lounsbury and Paul M. Hirsch. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, vols. 30A and 30. Administrative Science Quarterly, 57: 363-365.